Australian Twitter users aim ire at Elon Musk after apparent local outage

Problem appears to be limited to users in Australia and New Zealand and follows significant global outage in December

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Twitter users in Australia and New Zealand reported difficulty accessing the social media site for several hours on Wednesday - its second outage in the past few weeks.

The website Downdetector received thousands of reports from about 7am AEST on Wednesday saying that load times for the site were slow, they were given error messages, or they were unable to access it entirely.

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